Escape From Colditz: 75th Anniversary Edition

Escape From Colditx: 75th Anniversary Edition is a strategy game for 2 to 6 players, ages 14 and up with a typical game lasting anywhere between 90 and 150 minutes.

Escape From Colditz is a 1-vs-many semi-cooperative game where one player is the Security Officer of the German forces, and the others are Escape Officers for various nationalities or prisoners of war (POWs). Escape Officers try to acquire the equipment they need for a successful escape (rope, wire cutters, etc.), while the Security Officer tries to hinder them by putting them in solitary confinement and consficating their equipment.

Play lasts for a pre-determined length of time or number of rounds. If an Escape Officer can free a pre-determined number of POWs (usually 2) before then, they win. Otherwise the Security Officer wins.

The game was co-designed by screenwriter Brian Degas and Major P. R. Reid, MBE, MC, a British soldier who was one of the few to actually successfully escape from Colditz Castle during the Second World War.

Seventy-five years ago, Major P.R. Reid braved barbed wire, searchlights, and armed guards to Escape for Colditz....now it's YOUR turn to do the same.